Essays on Mountbatten

Many of the foreigners who came to India were as a result of trade in the 17th century; the traders began conquering territories in India over the years. After the fall of Bengal in the battle of Plassey, the British moved in and divided India through force of arms (Singh, 1984). During World War II, British and other European colonial empires experienced a strain leading to the other European colonial empires relieving the colonial grip on Asia and Africa. However, Britain was not part of the release of the colonial states. The National Congress of India proposed to support ...

The study of various aspects of the history of contacts between the East and the West in the political, economic and cultural fields contributes to both the development of science and the improvement of mutual understanding and beneficial cooperation between the two civilizations. Implicitly such issues carry immense political relevance. Nowadays, when the questions of self-determination of nations with looming prospects of gaining sovereignty by a large section of public entities, when political leaders often refuse to compromise, it seems timely to apply the lessons of the past. In other words, it is very important to identify what price ...

Pakistan and India gained their independence in the year 1947 from the British rule. At this point, a major partitioning took place in the eastern region where Bengal province was divided into two separate states. Of the states was referred to as the Indian state while the other was the Pakistani state. The British Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten spelt out the partitions plan to be followed. Under Lord Mountbatten’s rule, all the states were to choose, on their own, the partition to which they could belong. However, there were guidelines, rules, and regulations applied in this process. ...